Boisseau enlisted as a private in Co. A of the 12th VA Infantry on April 23, 1861. He was discharged for disability on May 1, 1861. A later service record indicates he joined Co. I of the 3rd VA Cavalry, but no further details have been verified.
After the war, he is listed as a farmer in the 1870 and 1880 censuses in Dinwiddie County, VA. Boisseau died of a stroke on July 17, 1897 and is buried in a family cemetery in Dinwiddie County, VA
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